Current exhibitions

Gabriele Münter. The Human Image

February 11 to May 21, 2023, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg

The Bucerius Kunst Forum is presenting the artist’s work in the exhibition Gabriele Münter. The Human Image in Hamburg. The show looks far beyond the long-established perception of Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) as part of the Blauer Reiter to focus instead on the artist’s portraiture. Beginning with drawings, sketches and photographs from her trip to the USA in 1899–1900, the exhibition goes on to examine the expressive individual and group portraits of the years 1908–1912, the portrait painting and drawings of women during the 1920s, and finally her late portraits of children and herself, providing an insight into the enormous range covered by Münter’s artistic oeuvre.
This exhibition is a collaboration with the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich.

Modernist Artist Couples. Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann in Discourse

September 25, 2022 to March 26, 2023, Museum Purrmann-Haus, Speyer

In the exhibition Modernist Artist Couples. Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann in Discourse, the paintings and lives of Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann enter into a dialogue with the works and biographies of the artist couples Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, Max Beckmann and Minna Tube, Reinhold and Sabine Lepsius, Oskar and Marg Moll, Leo von König and Mathilde Tardif and Anna von Hansemann, Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin. As key figures in the European modernist avant-garde, all of these artists led painting in new directions.

The works presented in the Museum Purrmann-Haus tell the stories of different partnerships, life models, and artistic careers. On view are expressive self-portraits and portraits, as well as outstanding paintings, drawings, and photographs of the shared lives of important modernist artist couples.

The exhibition includes 21 photographs from the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation.

Past

Making Modernism. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin

November 12, 2022 to February 12, 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Making Modernism is the first major UK exhibition devoted to pioneering women working in Germany in the early 1900s: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin.

The exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts in London reframes subjects such as self-portraiture, still-life, the female body, depictions of childhood, landscapes and urban scenes through the experiences and perspectives of these ground-breaking artists.

On display are 65 works, including six important works on loan from the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation.

Gabriele Münter. Pioneer of Modern Art

January 29, 2022 to May 8, 2022, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

The exhibition Gabriele Münter. Pioneer of Modern Art, which the Zentrum Paul Klee is currently showing, is the first major retrospective of Münter in Switzerland.

The exhibition was a collaboration with the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation and the Städtische Galerie in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich.

In the autumn of 2024 the exhibition will be shown in a modified form at the Museo Thyssen-Bornesmisza, Madrid.

Accompanying this exhibition a comprehensive documentary film was produced by Arte, based on interviews and personal writings. The DVD of the documentary film is available here.

Gabriele Münter. Painting to the Point

October 31, 2017 to April 8, 2018, Lenbachhaus Munich

The Lenbachhaus showed the most comprehensive exhibition on Gabriele Münter’s work in 25 years. We sought to offer a broader perspective on Münter’s creative output. We asked questions of art history to highlight its complexity and distinctive qualities and suggested a fuller appreciation of her achievements. Her work as a painter, presented in various thematic sections, was at the heart of the show: from classic genres such as the portrait and the landscape to interiors, abstractions, and her „primitivist“ work, visitors could encounter Münter’s oeuvre in all its richness.

This exhibition was organized by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau and Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich in cooperation with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

Further stations:

May 3, 2018 to August 19, 2018 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
September 15, 2018 to January 13, 2019, Museum Ludwig, Köln

Film release

Vassily Kandinsky & Gabriele Münter, passion et révolution

A documentary film from the collection Duos d’Artistes by Catherine Alvaresse and Julie Grivaux. The filming took place at the Münter House and at the Lenbachhaus.

The film has been shown several times on France 5 and will be broadcast at the MIFAC Film Festival in Angoulême on March 16, 2023.